RateSource (FIX tag 1446)

intFIX 5.0 SP2

RateSource (tag 1446) is an int field defined in FIX 5.0 SP2. It appears in 7 message types, always optionally. It is an enumerated field with 4 defined values.

At a glance

Tag: 1446
Name: RateSource
Datatype: int
Dialects: FIX 5.0 SP2
Messages: 7
Valid values: 4

What the specification says

Identifies the source of rate information.

Descriptions are quoted from the FIX Orchestra sources under the Apache 2.0 licence.

A real message using tag 1446

MarketDataSnapshotFullRefresh · FIX 5.0 SP2

Tag	Field	Wire value	Meaning
8	BeginString	FIXT.1.1
9	BodyLength	96
35	MsgType	W	MarketDataSnapshotFullRefresh
49	SenderCompID	BOARTEAM
56	TargetCompID	COUNTERPARTY
34	MsgSeqNum	2
52	SendingTime	20240101-12:00:00.000
268	NoMDEntries1 entry	1	repeating group
269	MDEntryType	0	Bid
1445	NoRateSources2 entries	2	repeating group
1446	RateSource	0	Bloomberg
1446	RateSource	0	Bloomberg
10	CheckSum	255

Edit and decode it yourself

Shown with | separators for readability. On the wire FIX uses SOH (0x01), an invisible control byte — and because BodyLength and CheckSum are computed over the actual bytes, the two forms have different checksums. Both are valid and both decode here.

Open in the full decoder →

Generated from the FIX 5.0 SP2 dictionary and verified at build time: it parses and validates with no issues. Open the decoder to try your own message.

Valid values

A value outside this list is not a parse error — the message still decodes — but validate() reports it as validate/value-not-in-enum.

Value	Meaning	Symbolic name
0	Bloomberg	BLOOMBERG
1	Reuters	REUTERS
2	Telerate	TELERATE
99	Other	OTHER

Where tag 1446 appears

Requiredness is a property of the message, not of the field: the same tag can be optional in one message and conditionally required in another.

Message	MsgType	Requiredness	Where in the message
AllocationInstruction	J	Optional	inside the RateSource component
AllocationReport	AS	Optional	inside the RateSource component
ExecutionReport	8	Optional	inside the RateSource component
MarketDataIncrementalRefresh	X	Optional	inside MDIncGrp › RateSource
MarketDataSnapshotFullRefresh	W	Optional	inside MDFullGrp › RateSource
Quote	S	Optional	inside the RateSource component
QuoteRequest	R	Optional	inside QuotReqGrp › RateSource

Wire format

A whole number, optionally signed. Leading zeros are legal on the wire and are preserved in the raw value. @boarteam/fix parses the value as a number and reports parse/invalid-int when it does not lex as one; the raw string is kept either way.

Read tag 1446 in TypeScript

decode.tsts

import { createFixEngine } from "@boarteam/fix";import { dictionary } from "@boarteam/fix-dict-fix50sp2";const fix = createFixEngine(dictionary);const { message, issues } = fix.parse(raw);const rateSource = message.fields[1446]?.raw;// e.g. "0" — Bloomberg// The dictionary also carries the labels:const label = fix.dictionary  .fieldByTag(1446)  ?.enumValues?.find((e) => e.value === rateSource)  ?.description;

Decode this in your own code

The same engine that produced the decoded example above is an Apache-2.0 npm package with zero runtime dependencies. It runs in Node and in the browser, and parse() returns problems as data instead of throwing.

npm i @boarteam/fix @boarteam/fix-dict-fix50sp2

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